Scope and Contents Submission from Field, MP for Birkenhead, to the National Executive Committee, on the Birkenhead reselection process, the role of Militant in Birkenhead and Wallasey, and ways of preventing members of Militant from being selected as candidates. Includes: papers on the role of the Transport and General Workers’ Union; the case for investigation in the Wirral; minutes of the Wirral District Labour Party; press-cuttings and bulletins; photographs of [? a demonstration by Militant]; National...

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Papers and correspondence on Field’s deselection as parliamentary candidate for Birkenhead, including: voting figures; an account by Peter Kilfoyle of the procedures followed; briefing notes; correspondence, including letters in support of Field and copies of letters from Field himself; press-cuttings.

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Correspondence with Field on the selection procedure in Birkenhead.

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Includes: responses by Wallasey constituency party, Wirral Labour Group and the Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU) to Field’s submission to the National Executive Committee; detailed briefing on Field’s submission; working paper on the investigation.

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Rough notes, briefs and memoranda on the selection of a parliamentary candidate for Birkenhead, including: notes of meetings with Field; voting figures; statements from NK and Field; drafts of the introduction to evidence submitted to the National Executive Committee by Field, with extracts from the submission; press-cuttings; correspondence between Sir Sigmund Sternberg and Robert Worcester, Market and Opinion Research International (MORI) Limited, on conducting a survey in Birkenhead.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection consists of the personal and public papers of Enoch Powell. The papers include: personal correspondence, literary and academic material and some wartime papers, 1922-1998; diaries, 1946-1995; political papers, including some ministerial and shadow cabinet papers, election material, subject files on a wide range of political issues, papers from Powell's various constituencies and letters from the public on various issues, and also papers from Powell's long-running...